Adaptive Through-Wall Indication of Human Target with Different Motions

Abstract

Through-wall indication of human targets is highly desired in many applications. Generally, human targets behind wall are noncooperative, and rare prior knowledge about the circumstance behind wall could be available. Thus, it requires the ability to indicate human targets with different motions from clutters. To investigate this problem, we first examine the conventional time-domain indication methods, and find that their performances are controlled by the historical pulse number adopted to estimate background, which corresponds to the tap-length from the angle of filter. Then, based on an intermittent mode of human target echoes, we define the optimum tap-length as the shortest tap-length that makes the filter output signal-to-clutter-and-noise ratio reach maximum and develop an adaptive indication method with a gradient tap-length control scheme to search the optimum tap-length. Finally, through-wall experiments with an impulse through-wall radar demonstrate that the proposed method can obtain a good adaptive indication performance on human target with different motions.